Cause of 2008's crude oil price surge remains elusive, CFTC says


Nine months after crude oil prices reached record levels, experts agreed at the US Energy Information Administration's 2009 annual conference on Apr. 7 that speculators shouldn't be blamed. They also could not say definitively what pushed prices upward during 2008's first half.

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